11 Bible Verses about Useless Words

Should he reason with talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?

Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.

But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.

But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to foolish talking,

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they lure through the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lust, the ones who were escaping from those who live in error;

even Job opens his mouth in vanity; he multiplies words without knowledge.

How then do you comfort me in vain? Yea, in your answers remains transgression.

For truly there is a putting away of the commandment which went before, because of the weakness and unprofitableness of it.

For it is not a vain thing for you, because it is your life. And by this Word you shall prolong your days in the land where you go over Jordan, there to possess it.